Rimavská Sobota
Rimavská Sobota ( German United Steffelbauer village, Hungarian Rimaszombat ) is a city in Banskobystrický kraj in the south of Slovakia near the Hungarian border. The city was the capital from 1850 to 1918 Gemerer County, today is the largest city of the same name Okres and counts some 24,000 inhabitants.
Geography
Rimavská Sobota is located approximately 250 km east of Bratislava in the south of central Slovakia. The city and the county are located in the valley of the river Rimava between the Slovak Ore and the hill country Cerová Highlands.
Boroughs
The city Rimavská Sobota consists of 11 districts:
- Bakta (1973 incorporated )
- Dúžava (1975 incorporated )
- Kurinec
- Mojín (1975 incorporated )
- Nižná Pokoradz (1975 incorporated )
- Rimavská Sobota
- Sabová
- Sobotka
- Včelinec
- Vinice
- Vyšná Pokoradz (1975 incorporated )
1976-1990 was the community Zacharovce part of Rimavská Sobota, 1926-1973 Bakta was temporarily an independent municipality.
History
The place is an old settlement site ( Neolithic, Bronze Age ). The community was developed from an old village that already in the 12th century was probably a fair settlement. Around 1150 it was up to about 1340 along with the entire Rimava - area property of the Archbishop of Kalocsa.
Rimavská Sobota was first mentioned in 1268 as Rymoa Zumbota. The Hungarian King Charles I granted the town city rights in 1335. In 1387, the later Roman- German Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg held on in the city and gave it then a coat of arms: In a silver shield and red reinforced bezungter black eagle. For the city that was a great honor, as a coat of arms ceremony at that time was not only time-consuming but also costly. In 1506 a huge fire destroyed the entire city. Thus, it could be rebuilt quickly, she was liberated by King Vladislav II for eight years from all taxes. As part of the reconstruction of the city, the road network was planned created in the form of a rectangle, which has not changed to this day.
The rapid development of the city took to the Turkish invasion in 1553 came to an abrupt end. For the second time in 1596, the city was occupied by the Turks, until it was liberated in 1686. 1710 raged in the city a serious cholera epidemic. In 1769 there was a dispute between the local Calvinists and Catholics. The Calvinists had disrupted a Catholic procession as they accuse Catholics, to take over their church. This came in the predominantly Catholic Habsburg Empire to revolt, so that Maria Theresa in 1771, the Church of the Calvinists tear down and built a Catholic in their place. At the time of Josephinism Rimavská Sobota capital of the county was Gemerer (1786-1790) for the first time. From 1850 to 1922 she was again the capital of the County of Gemer and small Hont.
1918/Januar end of 1919, the city fell to the newly formed Czechoslovakia. The proximity to Hungary, the region is inhabited by Rimavská Sobota traditionally by a significant Hungarian minority. This resulted in the First Vienna Award for re- affiliation of the city to Hungary in the years 1938 to 1945.
The main economic activities of the city are the agriculture and the food industry, but also the tourism in the Slovak Ore Mountains is becoming increasingly important. The largest employer in the region is the food group Tauris, which was converted to the privatization after 1989 to a corporation.
Rimavská Sobota is the location of a transmitter system for short and medium wave (radio stations, Rimavská Sobota ).
Twin Cities
Rimavská Sobota is twinned to Kolin in the Czech Republic, Świętochłowice in Poland and in Hungary Tiszaújváros.
Sons and daughters of the town
Birthplace of:
Workplace by: Janko Jesenský, Peter Kalmon Hostinský, Jozef Škultéty, Eduard Putra among others
Culture
Others
The place has acquired since 2004 notoriety as the origin for " humility beggar " in the West. Some residents, mostly Roma, forced by profiteers and racketeers over the years, to beg in Bavaria and Austria. They enter legally on a tourist and have all receipts to pay to the mafia. The beggars have despite the triple-digit sums that they take each day, live below the poverty line.